<p>Preeclampsia is characterized by placental dysfunction and results in significant morbidity, but reliable early prediction remains challenging. We investigated whether clinically obtained prenatal cell-free DNA (cfDNA) screening (PDNAS) using whole-genome sequencing (WGS) data can be leveraged to predict preeclampsia risk early in pregnancy (≤16 weeks). Using 1,854 routinely collected clinical PDNAS samples (median, 12.1 weeks) with low-coverage (0.5×) WGS data, we developed a framework to quantify maternal and fetal tissue signatures using nucleosome accessibility, revealing early placental and endothelial dysfunction. These signatures informed a prediction model for preeclampsia risk, which achieved a validation performance of 0.85 area under the receiver operating characteristic curve (AUC) (81% sensitivity at 80% specificity) for preterm phenotypes several months prior to disease onset in a separate cohort of 831 consecutively collected samples, and subsequently confirmed in an external cohort of 141 samples (AUC 0.84, 79% sensitivity). We demonstrate that assessment of cfDNA nucleosome accessibility from early-pregnancy cfDNA sequence data enables the detection of early placental and endothelial-tissue aberrations and may aid in the determination of preeclampsia risk.</p>

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Preeclampsia risk prediction from prenatal cell-free DNA screening

  • Mohamed Adil,
  • Teodora R. Kolarova,
  • Anna-Lisa Doebley,
  • Leah A. Chen,
  • Cara L. Tobey,
  • Patricia Galipeau,
  • Sam Rosen,
  • Michael Yang,
  • Brice Colbert,
  • Robert D. Patton,
  • Thomas W. Persse,
  • Erin Kawelo,
  • Jonathan B. Reichel,
  • Colin C. Pritchard,
  • Shreeram Akilesh,
  • Christina M. Lockwood,
  • Gavin Ha,
  • Raj Shree

摘要

Preeclampsia is characterized by placental dysfunction and results in significant morbidity, but reliable early prediction remains challenging. We investigated whether clinically obtained prenatal cell-free DNA (cfDNA) screening (PDNAS) using whole-genome sequencing (WGS) data can be leveraged to predict preeclampsia risk early in pregnancy (≤16 weeks). Using 1,854 routinely collected clinical PDNAS samples (median, 12.1 weeks) with low-coverage (0.5×) WGS data, we developed a framework to quantify maternal and fetal tissue signatures using nucleosome accessibility, revealing early placental and endothelial dysfunction. These signatures informed a prediction model for preeclampsia risk, which achieved a validation performance of 0.85 area under the receiver operating characteristic curve (AUC) (81% sensitivity at 80% specificity) for preterm phenotypes several months prior to disease onset in a separate cohort of 831 consecutively collected samples, and subsequently confirmed in an external cohort of 141 samples (AUC 0.84, 79% sensitivity). We demonstrate that assessment of cfDNA nucleosome accessibility from early-pregnancy cfDNA sequence data enables the detection of early placental and endothelial-tissue aberrations and may aid in the determination of preeclampsia risk.